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Heinrich then placed handcuffs on Jacob and drove him to a gravel pit, where he sexually molested the boy.

After being abused, according to Heinrich, Jacob asked if he was going to be taken home.

“I said, ‘I can’t take you all the way home,'” Heinrich stated. “He started to cry. I said, ‘Don’t cry.'”

Heinrich said he panicked when he heard what sounded like sirens and shot the boy twice in the head.

Referring to Heinrich’s confession, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said, “Finally, we know. … We know the truth. Danny Heinrich is no long the person of interest. He is the confessed killer of Jacob Wetterling.”

Patty Wetterling, Jacob’s mother, and other members of the family were present to hear the confession.

She said, “It’s incredibly painful to know his last days, last hours, last minutes. To us, Jacob was alive, until we found him.”